When scientists sequenced the DNA of a woman who lived to 117, they were not just cataloging the quirks of an extraordinary life. They were probing a question that touches every family: why do some ...

For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

Analysis of hundreds of single-cell genomes from Yellowstone National Park shows bacterial species are less cohesive than previously thought.

Human bones found by a hunter in 2019 have been identified six years later as the remains of a woman who had never been ...

After more than a decade, remains discovered in southern Minnesota have finally been matched to World War II veteran Luis ...

Human remains found along a Minnesota highway a decade ago have been identified as a World War II veteran. The remains were ...

A study by Kristin Winchell (NYU) sequenced the genomes of these reptiles and found 93 specific genes related to limb and skin development that had diverged from forest populations. The city lizards ...

Scientists have now re-examined the 2000-year-old skeleton and its DNA with new techniques. Dr William Marsh, one of our ...

The New England Innocence Project is pushing for DNA testing in a 1988 murder. The group says the retesting could clear the name of Shawn Tanner, who served more than 30 years for murder and died in ...

James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died Thursday after a brief illness, according to a statement from his former ...

The NovaSeq X Plus is a half-ton machine that looks like an industrial freezer, with a big touchscreen on top and racks to hold cartridges of chemicals below. Its job is to simultaneously sequence 128 ...

DNA from a tossed cigarette butt led investigators to a suspect in a 2023 burglary at a Columbia Falls tractor dealer, prosecutors say. Michael Jack Bothman, 49, faces felony counts of theft and ...